establishment of industrial unionism

At the same time, the New Deal moved to mitigate the market pressures that had driven the
antiunionism of American employers. The NIRA legislation, through codes of fair competition, was designed to enable industries to cartelize their depression-ridden markets. The exchange was entirely deliberate—granting representational rights to workers as a price for granting market controls to...

role of Reagan

...counterpart to U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s decision in 1981 to break a strike by federal air-traffic controllers—an act of enormous symbolic importance that legitimized the resurgence of
antiunionism in corporate America. Antiunionism gained no such public legitimacy in Canada. Underlying this was a factor emphasized by the sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset: that collectivist values...